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    If meaning required active audience reconstruction, forge... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→For an artwork to become an objective entity with manifest meaning, the audience must actively reconstruct the meaningful silence between the traces left by the artist.

    If meaning required active audience reconstruction, forgeries and misattributed works would bear identical meaning to originals, which conflicts with established critical practice.

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    Key Terms

    Active audience reconstruction(as used in literary and aesthetic theory)
    The idea that readers or viewers create meaning themselves by interpreting a work, rather than meaning being fixed by the creator.
    Conflicts with(as used in general philosophy)
    Disagrees with or contradicts; two ideas conflict if they cannot both be true at the same time.
    Critical practice(how skeptics traditionally approached philosophical arguments)
    A method of carefully examining and questioning ideas to test their weaknesses.
    Forgeries(as the problem being investigated)
    Fake texts or documents created to appear as though they were written by someone famous (in this case, Pythagoras or his early followers) when they actually weren't.
    Identical meaning

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    (as used in this logical argument)
    Exactly the same significance or message—conveying nothing different between two things.
    Misattributed works(as used in art and literary criticism)
    Artworks or writings that are mistakenly credited to the wrong creator—either by accident or on purpose.
    meaning(Possible-worlds semantic theory of meaning)
    A rule specifying what an expression would stand for if the world were a certain way, rather than what the expression actually stands for in the current circumstance

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